GRAFUG Meeting February 12, 2011

Thank you to everyone who joined us on February 12th for another great GRAFUG meeting.

Announcements

Changes to GRAFUG.com website

Jody has updated the look of it (Very nice. Check it out)

Jody mentioned: check out update to FLL over Windows API on VFPX site

Mike Potjer said he is using it and it is great

Progress bar enhancements

Tasklist enhancements

Mike Timpe mentioned Windows 7 Service Pack 1 announced

" General Discussion on Virtual PC

In Windows 7

Free Windows Virtual PC

Free Windows XP Mode

Southwest Fox 2011 has been announced. The dates are Oct 26-29. This is slightly later in the month and it goes from Wed - Sat instead of the usual
Thu - Sun. The organizers chose to switch it up this year because of some conflicts with the usual week with some religious days. They also chose
to end on Sat instead of Sun in recognition of those who wanted to be home in time to celebrate Halloween with their families. Kudos to the organizers
for being so conscientious!

Main Presentation

Introduction to SQL by Rick Schummer

Rick Schummer was nice enough to travel across state to give a presentation on Microsoft SQL server. He claimed this was an "on the fly" presentation, but you
wouldn't have known it. It was extremely informative and presented in an interactive way, that allowed everyone to contribute and understand at a pace that worked
well for all.

Rick showed us:

Latest version is SQL SERVER 2008 R2

Versions Available

Data Center Version (High End)

Enterprise (High End)

Azure - Microsoft Cloud Version

Standard (Cost $5,000)

Developer (The one that Rick recommends)

Same as Standard Edition (Cost $50)

Express (Cost $0)

Limit of 10Gig of data

Limit of 1 processor

Can be distributed free to customer

Installation

Name a Unique Instance for the server.
This allows you to have several SQL servers on one machine

Management Studio

This is used to maintain the databases

Backup

Backup is very flexible

Wrapping Up

We had some swag to give away again.

Name

SWAG

Mike Potjer

XBox game - MotorSports 3.0

Mike Timpe

T-Shirt

Rich Addison

Mug

Mike Lyzun

Windows 7 Book

Jody Meyer

Mug

Next Month

How I use SQL Server Data in VFP by Rick Bean

I highly recommended making an effort to make March's meeting. It looks to be an informative session on how to migrate your Foxpro apps to an SQL server backend.

Rick's company went from xBase tables to FP tables in a mixed FPW/VFP environment to now almost exclusively using MS SQL Server. While he'll probably
touch on some other techniques that they looked at, he can provide more information and answer more questions based on what they use now.

Final Thoughts

A small but spirited group met for lunch afterwards at Arnies Restaurant. It was great fun. What a nice way to bond and share war stories. Let's have a good
turnout in March :)